Thursday, May 12, 2005
Why Do They Not Protest Mosques?
To understand this seeming inconsistency we have to take into account the degree to which radical liberal activism is an outgrowth of an adolescent mindset. If many Christian conservatives, as I've argued elsewhere, are hell-bent on keeping the nuclear family and the Church free of "gay contamination", many hardcore gay activists are bent on forcing their way into churches and the institution of marriage because they have yet to work through the feelings of alienation that dogged them throughout childhood. I can find no other explanation for the anger so many irreligious gay acquaintances of mine have expressed towards the Church's stance on homosexuality. Looking at the issue rationally, it shouldn't matter one whit to a non-Catholic what the Vatican says about homosexuality. Yet it does, not because the Church's stance has any immediate effect on their lives, but because the Vatican refusal to accept active and unrepentant homosexuals as Catholics in good standing triggers the memories of other painful (and frequently paternal) rejections with which they have never come to terms.
Dave Morrison writes an interesting response to the analysis posted here too.
Dave Morrison writes an interesting response to the analysis posted here too.
